Mises on the Nation and the State

Abstract

This article discusses the distinction Mises (1919) draws between the nation and the state as well
as the relation of this distinction with the role of the state in the free society.
A previous version of this article received the 1st Prize of the European Center of Austrian Economics
Foundation’s 2007 Vernon Smith Essay Contest.

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